Last year Center of the American Experiment decided to get involved in a legal challenge to St. Paul’s right-of-way maintenance fee and filed an amicus brief because we believed the…
The Star Tribune recently reported on Golden Valley-based General Mills’ plans to pressure the food giant’s advertising agencies to adhere to strict racial and gender staffing quotas or forget about…
Louis D. Johnston, an economics professor at St. John’s University and a MinnPost writer, recently took issue with a new report on Minnesota’s economy published by the Center of the American…
A new documentary film on Minnesota’s high tech industry is set to premiere on September 22. As the Star Tribune’s Lee Schafer explains, “the gist of the movie is that…
The Pioneer Press has a fascinating article on polarization in the Minnesota House of Representatives. The remarkable finding, based on a computer analysis of Minnesota House voting records, is that…
We sponsored WCCO radio at the Minnesota State Fair today, and spent the day at the WCCO booth. Plugs for the Center played on WCCO twice per hour, either as…
Another Minnesota city, North Mankato, has restricted one of Americans’ most fundamental property rights – the ability to rent out one’s home. But North Mankato faces not only constitutional concerns but…
Back in June, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota announced it was pulling out of Minnesota’s individual insurance market due to heavy losses. As a result, 103,000 policy holders will…
The minimum wage is a classic feel-good measure: who wouldn’t want relatively low-paid workers to earn a little more money? No one. In my view, the minimum wage doesn’t do…
Here’s a sports story that climbs even higher than Colin Kaepernick’s backside sinks low. The Little League baseball team from Maine-Endwell, New York, won the 2016 United States championship last…
Update: The Minnesota Supreme Court blocked the ballot proposal from being placed on the ballot because the present city charter does not provide for submitting ordinances by a citizen petition.…
Mankato is one of Minnesota’s most prosperous cities. Yet, as Peter Nelson pointed out in an op-ed in the Mankato Free Press, even Minnesota’s best-performing areas are not enjoying an…
Today, the St. Cloud Times published this op-ed by American Experiment Senior Policy Fellow Kathy Kersten: If you’re like most Minnesotans, you may believe our state is doing great economically.…
Minnesota’s economy faces a turning point. That’s the message of American Experiment’s new report, “Minnesota’s Economy: Mediocre Performance Threatens the State’s Future.” It’s a report with statewide implications, so the Center…
On August 15, the Center published a report by Dr. Joseph Kennedy titled “MINNESOTA’S ECONOMY: Mediocre Performance Threatens the State’s Future.” The report has gained a great deal of attention…
After reading an excellent essay about “Two Underclasses” in the current issue of “National Review” by J. J. Vance, who also is author of the applauded new book “Hillbilly Elegy,”…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
What two things define a Minnesota summer? Going up North, and the State Fair. We just got back from a few days in the North Woods–Lake Vermilion, specifically. Lake Vermilion…
Flags will remain at half-staff across the state for the rest of August as tributes pour in following the passing of Gen. John Vessey Jr., the Minnesotan chosen by President…
American Experiment’s new report on the state’s economy shows Minnesota’s performance has been average, at best, over the last 15 years, trailing many other states in job creation, income growth…
Financial World ranks the nine worst states to retire to, based on taxes and cost of living. They are mostly the usual suspects–New York, California, D.C., New Jersey, Oregon, Hawaii.…
This is the op-ed that I had in the St.Paul Pioneer Press this morning. It is based on the groundbreaking paper by Dr. Joseph Kennedy titled “Minnesota’s Economy: Mediocre Performance…
This year there was strong bipartisan support for a special session to do two things: pass a bonding bill, and correct tax legislation that contained an error that, according to…